nRF9160 Product Brief - Nordic Semiconductor

nRF9160 Product Brief

Welcome and introductionSvenn-Tore Larsen, CEO

© Nordic Semiconductor


Welcome and introduction Svenn-Tore Larsen, CEO

nRF91 Series; Product readiness Svein-Egil Nielsen, CTO

nRF91 Series; Product excellence Peder Rand, Product Manager Cellular IoT

Customer reception Geir Langeland, Director Sales & Marketing

Demonstrations Svein-Egil Nielsen, CTO

Agenda

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nRF91 Series;Product Readiness

Svein-Egil Nielsen, CTO


The nRF91 Series development deliverables:

nRF91 System-on-Chip (SoC) with RF, Baseband, Application MCU, Flash, RAM

nRF9160 System in Package (SiP); nRF91 SoC with RF Front End, Power Management System,

Passives and Crystal in an ultra compact 10x16x1 mm SiP

LTE Connectivity for both cellular IOT protocol stacks

CAT-M

NB-IOT

GPS software

Certifications and approvals

SDK Software; MQTT, TLS, TCP, UDP, RTOS, Drivers

Cloud connectivity through nRFCloud

nRF91 Series with a large set of deliverables

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Hardware Supported features December 12th 2018 April 30th 2019

nRF9160-SICA LTE-M/NB-IoT/GPS Public Sampling Production

nRF9160-SIBA LTE-M Production

nRF9160-SIAA NB-IoT Public Sampling

nRF9160 in production

nRF9160 in volume ramp Significant Wafer Starts

Final hardware characterization and qualifications ongoing

Minor adjustments to Silicon

Variants in the pipeline

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Software December 12th 2018 March 31st 2019 July 31st 2019

LTE-M Public Sampling Production

NB-IoT Public Sampling Production

GPS Public Sampling Production

Connectivity and GPS Software Readiness

Software solutions quickly

maturing with Nordic’s LTE-M

software available first

Release schedule of NB-IoT

and GPS in place

Limited sampling of NB-IoT

and GPS

GPS

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Certifications in place

The key certifications are in place

for a typical set of bands

Ongoing activities to add additional

band, additional territories and

carrier specific certifications

Status: nordicsemi.com/9160cert

ISED The regulatory certifications are regional in nature and are

required in order to sell radio equipment into a region. In

essence, this testing ensures that the device behaves nicely in

the spectrum and does not interfere unduly with other

equipment.

The GCF certification is designed to ensure compatibility with

the LTE 3GPP specification so that it can communicate with

the eNBs (base stations) over the LTE-M or NB-IoT subsets.

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Development kits in mass production

The nRF9160 DK is an affordable, pre-certified single-board

development kit for evaluation and development on the nRF9160 SiP

for LTE-M and NB-IoT. It has a dedicated LTE-M and NB-IoT antenna

that supports a wide range of bands, to operate globally. It has a

dedicated antenna for GPS which is supported on the nRF9160.

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You can find the application SDK examples here:

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/fw-

nrfconnect-nrf/tree/master/samples/nrf9160

asset_tracker – sensor-to-cloud example using MQTT over

TCP with TLS security

at_client – tunnels AT commands to the modem

lte_ble_gateway – collects data over Bluetooth and

transfers it to a cloud server

secure_boot – secure bootloader needed to run non-secure

application code

Included now: MQTT, secure BSD sockets, peripheral

and DK board drivers

Coming soon: flash writing, CoAP, HTTP,

LWM2M, DFU

Extensive SDK software offering

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https://github.com/NordicPlayground/fw-nrfconnect-nrf/tree/master/samples/nrf9160


nRF Connect for Cloud supports:

SIM activation

Development kit management

Tracking of development kit metrics and

geographical location

Monitoring of cellular data usage

Cellular data visualization

Multiple connection of development kits

Asset tracker example application

nRF9160 supported by nRF Connect for Cloud

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https://nrfcloud.com

nRF91 Series;Product excellence

Peder Rand, Product Manager Cellular IoT


New low power LTE technologies

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Also known as eMTC, LTE CAT-M1 LTE CAT-NB1

Bandwidth 1.4 MHz 200 kHz

Max throughput (UL/DL) 300/375 kbps 30/60 kbps

Range <11 km <15 km

Mobility Yes No

Roaming Yes Not yet

Battery lifetime 15 years


Higher throughput

Low latency

Roaming

Mobility

Most power efficient at medium

data rates

Suitable for TCP/TLS end-to-end

secure connection

Longer range

Most power efficient at low data

rates

LTE-M and NB-IoT strengthsWhy it’s important to do both…


Typical LTE-M applications

Asset tracking Wearables/Medical Retail and POS Home security


Typical NB-IoT applications

Smart metering Smart agriculture Smart cityPredictive

maintenance


A complete Nordic cellular IoT solution

Devices

nRF9160 SiP

Further variants coming

Stacks & SW

Protocol stacks

Extensive SDKs

RTOS

Tools

Develop

Evaluate & test

Deploy


Developers best friend

Get nRF9160 DK up and running in a few minutes

Single board development kit

Free development tools

Open-source software

Device management nRF Connect for Cloud

SiP measures: 16mm x 10mm x 1mm

nRF9160 + nRF Connect suite is EASY

10mm

16mm

1mm


Our application example implements end-to-end security

– fully accelerated by hardware

State-of-the art authentication and encryption to a

commercial cloud service

All application source code and hardware design files

available to customers now

End-to-end security enabled

LTE

TCP/TLS

Cellular Core Network


A complete solution in a package

US:B2, B4, B5, B12, B13

EMEA:B3, B8, B20, B28

nRF9160 with global support in same device

APAC:B3, B5, B8, B28


Low power enables disruptive applications Power Saving Mode

Suitable for more than 10 min latency

Can sleep up to 413 days

nRF9160 PSM floor current will be 3 uA

Extended Discontinous Receive

Suitable less than 10 min latency

LTE-M interval 5.12s to 2621.44s (44 min)

NB-IoT interval 20.48s to 10485s (175 min)

nRF9160 LTE-M eDRX floor current is 7 uA


Best in class power consumption

~ 15 uA ~ 0.5 mA ~ 150 mA

Connected with 10 minutes

downlink latency (eDRX)

More than 15 years battery life

Sending tracking information

every 20s (DRX)

More than 6 months battery life

Downloading new firmware @

360 kbps (RRC Connected)

A 512 KB image updated in 30 s

LTE-M, 23 dBm, 3.7 V, 2700 mAh

~ 11 uA


Range is king

nRF9160 offers the max allowable

output power of +23dBm

Sensitivity

-108 dBm: LTE-M

-125 dBm: NB-IoT

(single sub-carrier BW)

Output power + sensitivity is your

range. ‘The link budget’

nRF9160 is range

+23 dBmOutput power


Nordic self-service software on Nordic

web and GitHub

(4000 SDK downloads /month)

Developer Zone

Engineer-to-Engineer

(1000 cases per month)

Nordic DevZone GitHub

Chip, firmware, SDK, module all developed and supported by Nordic

Customer receptionGeir Langeland, Director Sales & Marketing


The nRF9160 - extremely well received

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Existing nRF customers

New IoT customers

Trade press

Distributors

Nominated for professional awards

Carriers are referring customers to Nordic

Not so well received by competitors


Customer deployment ahead of expectations

From Nordic Q3 2018 presentation

Status as of today

Over 350 lead customers sampled

Wide online nRF9160 availability

(demand outstripping deliveries)

1000+ kits shipped from Nordic to

distributors in the last week

Ramping up availability of kits and

samples through Dec 2018 to more

distributors worldwide


Leading Lights Awards CES Innovation Award GSA Awards

nRF91 Series shortlisted for The

top telecoms industry IoT award

in the world - Most Innovative

IoT/M2M Strategy (April)

nRF9160 SiP named as 2019

CES Innovation Award Honeree

(November)

Most respected emerging public

semiconductor company at the

GSA Awards (December)

Recognition by industry press and peers

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Wide press coverage since launch

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Low power cellular IoT nRF9160 DK Software and tools

More pageviews

before vs after launch

Of all pageviews on

Software and Tools pages

(DKs, apps, software, tools)

Increase of Software and tools

pages after the nRF9160 launch

High cellular web traffic since launch

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x10 40% 70%

DemonstrationsSvein-Egil Nielsen, CTO

End-End Connectivity

Ease of Use

Building on Existing

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